Summer brings with it some of our favorite garden vegetables: tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, zucchini, to name just a few.
But summer also brings some of the garden’s most notorious pests whom, if left out of control, will devour those vegetables before they have a chance to make it to our table.

Share Last year, on a whim I purchased a small packet of collard green seeds. It was late in the season but I started a few transplants anyway, then got busy, forgot about them, remembered them, and set them out … Continue reading →

ShareThis is Part 4 in a series on Fall Gardening. Part 1 can be read here; Part 2 can be read here; and Part 3 can be read here. While shopping for your fall garden seeds you’ll notice that seeds … Continue reading →

Share This post was to have been a recipe for a beautiful green bean salad. I had all the pictures ready to go, and when I sat down to work on my post, I realized I had inadvertently packed up … Continue reading →

Share If you are looking to use up some of your summer tomatoes here is a great recipe that utilizes sun dried tomatoes in a relish. My garden is too small yet to grow extra tomatoes for drying but it … Continue reading →

Share well, a few words actually… While pests are always present in my garden, come mid-summer, when the temperatures are at their highest, they seem to be the most prevalent. When I first began gardening, my solution to dealing with … Continue reading →

ShareBefore editing, this post read: “Happy first day of summer!” But yesterday, while browsing through my FB newsfeed I saw someone post “Happy first day of summer.” I snickered. Everyone knows the first day of summer is June 21. Wait. … Continue reading →